"Isaraltwasser, Januar Abend" (Isar backwater, January evening), Carl Bössenroth (Berlin 1863–1935), 1899
Oil on panel. Bears signature and date lower right "C. Bössenroth / 23 Jan. 1899.". Paper label to the reverse of the panel, printed "Carl Bössenroth / Hohenschäftlarn bei München / Jsarthalbahn.", inscribed in ink "N. 5", "Isaraltwasser / Januar Abend" and "150.oo M.", below one word in pencil, not securely legible; further a stamp of the same wording, heavily abraded, and remnants of a second paper label. Recorded in the preliminary catalogue raisonné of the Carl-Bössenroth-Archiv, Museum Eckernförde, no. Böss-WKV590x. River landscape with water and coloured reflections, bank and trees to the middle distance, hills to the left, a striated evening sky; a deer on the bank left of centre, further animals in the grass behind. Impasted application. Surface dirt overall. Abrasion to the paint layer along the upper edge adjoining the inner slip. Crack to the gilt inner slip at the upper edge; scratches to the frame surface, loss of wood to the lower frame member on the reverse. Image 48.0 × 33.3 cm, frame 67.5 × 53.5 cm. Trained in Berlin and Munich, active in Munich from 1890; works in the Museum Eckernförde, which is compiling his catalogue raisonné.
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Oil on panel. Bears signature and date lower right "C. Bössenroth / 23 Jan. 1899.". Paper label to the reverse of the panel, printed "Carl Bössenroth / Hohenschäftlarn bei München / Jsarthalbahn.", inscribed in ink "N. 5", "Isaraltwasser / Januar Abend" and "150.oo M.", below one word in pencil, not securely legible; further a stamp of the same wording, heavily abraded, and remnants of a second paper label. Recorded in the preliminary catalogue raisonné of the Carl-Bössenroth-Archiv, Museum Eckernförde, no. Böss-WKV590x. River landscape with water and coloured reflections, bank and trees to the middle distance, hills to the left, a striated evening sky; a deer on the bank left of centre, further animals in the grass behind. Impasted application. Surface dirt overall. Abrasion to the paint layer along the upper edge adjoining the inner slip. Crack to the gilt inner slip at the upper edge; scratches to the frame surface, loss of wood to the lower frame member on the reverse. Image 48.0 × 33.3 cm, frame 67.5 × 53.5 cm. Trained in Berlin and Munich, active in Munich from 1890; works in the Museum Eckernförde, which is compiling his catalogue raisonné.
Condition: II
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